Beach Boom in the Netherlands with Electro-Voice XLC

August 14th, 2008

The beach resort of Schouwen-Duiveland in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands was the destination of choice on August 2nd this year for thousands of holiday-makers and dance fans. The reason? One of the most popular open-air events in the Dutch calendar: the Beach Boom Festival, at which, despite somewhat chilly and windy weather conditions, DJs of the caliber of the Twisted Sisters, Stereo Divas, Sydney Samson, and Andy Sherman made it a truly festive occasion.

All were assisted in no small measure by the quality of the audio equipment at their disposal; Entertainment Zeeland, the rental company charged with responsibility for the sound reinforcement, deployed an Electro-Voice XLC 127DVX system. With support from Electro-Voice partners E-Audio Benelux, Entertainment Zeeland supplied and supervised 32 Electro-Voice XLC 127DVX array elements and 20 Xsub subwoofers, all powered by Electro-Voice TG-7 and CP Series amplifiers. A number of Klark Teknik DN9848E units were used for system control.

“We were dismayed, initially, by the dismal weather,“ remembers Martijn Stout of Entertainment Zeeland, “but the goose pimples we all got when we turned on the XLC system owed nothing to the cold!“ Axel Nagtegaal, head of E-Audio Benelux, concurs: “The conditions were far from optimal, but the production was,“ he told us; “with a system like the XLC, one is apt to forget that good sound is anything but child’s play!“